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Spotlight on ENGL 2810 (and 3830, 3840, 4800, 4801, etc etc): Creative Writing at Cornell

Happy Halloween! In our last post for October, senior Anna Ravenelle discusses her experiences with the creative writing program within the English department. For her and for many others, creative writing classes provide an opportunity to explore the arts while earning credit and getting feedback from esteemed authors and poets. By: Anna Ravenelle '17

Spotlight on COML 3111: Literature, Art, and the Environment

This week, sophomore and new Ambassador Julia Curley discusses how a class she took outside of her major has allowed her to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of the College of Arts and Sciences, and has kindled interests in new fields - including undergraduate publishing! By: Julia Curley '19

Spotlight on: BIOG4990: Independent Undergraduate Research in Biology

This week, junior Solveig Van der Vegt writes about her experience conducting undergraduate research as a member of the Fromme Lab. Through the Office of Undergraduate Biology, Solveig and many other Cornell students are able to earn academic credit while also working on their own independent projects. By: Solveig Van der Vegt '18

Spotlight on: GOVT 3012: The Politics of Poverty in the U.S.

In her post this week, junior Isabel Caro discusses the importance of working alongside and listening to people with differing opinions. She explains how her government class this semester provides ample space for this, while also encouraging the type of critical thinking she feels defines a College of Arts & Sciences education. By: Isabel Caro '18

Truly "Any Person, Any Study": Finding Meaning in Ezra Cornell's Motto Through the French Department

This October, we've decided to showcase Ambassadors' experiences "Easing Back into Classes." We asked our Ambassadors to tell us about a class they're taking or have taken that they think the world deserves to know about.

When the Summer Ending is Just the Beginning: "Coming Home" to Cornell

The last member of our Arts & Sciences Ambassadors E-board is Kasey Han '18. After spending most of her summer conducting molecular and cellular neuroscience research at Stanford University, Kasey returned to campus early for training to be a Student Assistant on West Campus. It's fitting that Kasey's post closes out our September collection just after Homecoming Weekend here in Ithaca - her post strongly emphasizes how it feels to leave summer behind and "return home" to Cornell!

From One Hill to Another: How I Spent my Summer in Washington, D.C.

This week, junior Sam Cohen '18 discusses how her sociology major at Cornell (on East Hill) inspired her to apply for a summer internship in Washington, D.C., (on Capitol Hill), and how that experience helped her discover a new appreciation for politics and government. By Samantha Cohen '18, Social Chair

Interning in NYC: How I Spent my Summer Working for Carat

This week, our secretary, Information Science major Meg Shigeta '17 , gives us a window into her summer experience as an intern in New York City. Enjoy! By: Meg Shigeta '17, Events Coordinator/Records Keeper

Checking Off #31 on the List of 161 Things to Do at Cornell: How I Spent my Summer in Ithaca

Welcome back! Here at the Arts & Sciences Ambassadors, we're easing back into the swing of the fall semester. What with the warm weather and the long weekend, though, we can't quite shake off the feel of the summer, and so we've chosen to devote our first blog posts to that very topic: what did we do this summer? Throughout September, we will be posting blogs written by the four members of our executive board.

Social Sciences

ISS project to study economics, politics of China urbanization

Cornell Chronicle

One in 10 people on Earth live in China’s cities. Over the past decade, nearly 200 million people in China have moved from rural to urban regions, and 8 million more are expected to relocate every year between now and 2050. Just what this means for China and the world has the attention of the Institute for the Social Sciences’ newest collaborative project, China’s Cities: Divisions and Plans.

Religion

Professor explores contemporary and historic Islam

Arts & Sciences Communications

Islam has been much in the American news lately, but Chiara Formichi says the stereotypes media reinforce do us a disservice. “It’s important that we as faculty help students to break up assumptions and see that Islam is not just what is portrayed in the media,” she says. 

Music, Performing & Media Arts

CCA 2016 Biennial to focus on empathy

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) 2016 Biennial, “Abject/Object Empathies,” will feature 12 new projects by invited artists, Cornell faculty members and students. Most of the works will be presented on campus between Sept. 15 and Dec. 22, all on the theme of the cultural production of empathy.

Interdisciplinary study

New University Courses tackle love, food justice

A&S Communications

If you’ve ever wondered about love (and who hasn’t?), there’s a new university course for you this year. And if you ponder the issue of food justice and how it relates to our tiny town of Ithaca, there’s one for that too.Those topics are two of the new ones covered this year through the University Courses Initiative, which was begun in 2012 and will offer 18 courses this year.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

$1.3M NIH grant funds brain development, cancer research

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers will seek to uncover fundamental processes in brain development and their links to brain cancers with a new grant.

Orientation

Dean Ritter Welcomes the Class of 2020

A&S Communications

“Cornell’s story is America’s story, and we are in this great ‘unfinished symphony’ together."